In a short film made for Chinese TV, Adams describes how her fascination with China began at Bowdoin. She is now a doctor of internal medicine in New York City, where she works with the city’s Chinese population.

People in the borderlands between Cameroon and Nigeria commonly refer to the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram as “slave raiders,” Professor of Anthropology Scott MacEachern explains in The Washington Post. “There’s good reason to use that term,” he continues. “In many striking ways, Boko Haram’s raids for ‘wives’ parallel the slave raids of a century ago.”

Bowdoin senior Parker Lemal’Brown’s short play, “Gesundheit,” has been selected for the upcoming Maine Playwrights Festival. After reading the 60-odd submissions this year, the festival committee selected five to be produced at the Portland Stage Company April 26 through May 5.

Mollie Friedlander ’14, of Del Mar, Calif., has been named a Knight-Hennessy Scholar by Stanford University, a new scholarship that emphasizes scholarly success and potential, as well as leadership qualities and a compassionate desire to improve the world.

“While STEM workers can certainly drive innovation through science alone, imagine how much more innovative they could be if the pool of knowledge they draw on were wider and deeper. That occurs as part of a liberal arts education,” Catherine Roberts ’87 said at a recent campus talk.